Fellow travellers

I've been contacted by Andrew Ward of Incubator Co-op who look to be doing something similar in Australia. Andrew will be at Open 2018.

I know that Nathan schneider is involved in the https://start.coop project in North America, and will also be at the event in London. There may be others, including Unfound people (I assume that project will be planning/considering a repeat exercise?). Maybe we should try to organise an informal gathering?

I've sent a message to Nathan. I'm also in email dialogue with Greg Brodsky from start.coop so I'll mention it to him. Who's coming from Australia? Anthony McMullen?

Oh, no I see you've named Andrew Ward. Doh!

Nathan has responded positively to the idea of a meet up with us and incubator.coop.

I've also been in touch with Alanna Irving (Loomio co-founder, Enspiralist) now part of Open Collective. I was talking to her about 'Cooperation as a Service' perhaps as a development for Open Collective, perhaps in collaboration with Platform6, start.coop, incubator.coop. She is keen, and has also been having similar conversations with Nathan. Convergence is happening! She sent me this link to a doc by Nathan. Look familiar?
https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/tdx3_1GwdAF1RymndPCT1fT1ik-VVV-35-3Od20XeSW

I've asked if anyone from Open Collective will be at the conference.

I can't get the Sandstorm doc to load - do I need to create an account first?

It's working for me without doing anything. Takes a few seconds to load, mind you.

I've also just joined the P2P Foundation Wiki which is a crowdsourced collection of resources around Per to Peer (P2P) collaboration. A Platform 6 wiki is one of the ways that we could crowdsource the definitive collection of co-operative development resources.

Happy to set up a wiki, or perhaps a wiki-ish area within the p6 website. Tell me a bit more about how you see it being used?

I was just about to ask you if we could easily do that.

Wiki MVP1

Purpose

To provide a dynamic and up to date crowd-sourced central
resource for documents, links, providers, research, funding
related to co-operative development

• Public facing

• P6 members can edit and create content

• Non-members can suggest content

At the very least it would provide an easy way for me to refer to
the many resources I am continually referencing.

if you don't want to re-invent the wheel we have this under used wiki that can be used for anything. https://wiki.uk.coop/wiki/Main_Page

Cheers John. I've made a start on a new wheel, but will take look.

It could also drive interest to P6

Probably best that there is an option to be a member of the Wiki without being a subscribing P6 member.

I'm happy to start populating a Wiki

If you log in at https://platform6.coop/user you should now have access to create wiki pages. Start at https://platform6.coop/wiki/platform-6-wiki
Still some niceties to add in there in terms of user interface, but it lookd broadly functional. Also seems to be running a bit slow, for me at least, so I may need to beef things up and/or tweak some config

Cheers Graham. Can log in OK. Probably worth a chat before I
start creating. I'd like to make it open to non-members too once
it has some content.

No worries. Just start writing. That's the hard bit. All else is fixable.

I'll need to know how to upload files @graham2

I've added a file attachment/upload field to the wiki page creation/edit form. You should be able to upload files of the specified types and max size. Once uploaded the page will display the url of the uploaded file, which you can then choose to embed in your text as a hyperlink.

I'll probably add a simple WYSIWYG editing toolbar in due course to the body field to make life a bit easier for formatting and links.

If you need more let me know

Wide access to the wiki would be great. I'd like to learn more about this whole project.